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Community Economic Development Community Economic Development A Curriculum Supplement for Atlantic Canada in the Global Community Community Economic Development A Curriculum Supplement for Atlantic Canada in the Global Community ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Acknowledgments This grade 9 curriculum on community economic development (CED) is part of a broader CED awareness project sponsored by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development, under the auspices of the Canada Nova Scotia Cooperation Agreement on Economic Diversification. The curriculum itself has been developed in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Department of Education and was overseen by a steering committee comprising CED practitioners and social studies teachers. Special thanks go to steering committee members Jo Ann Fewer, Halifax Regional Development Agency; Anna Parks, Colchester Regional Development Agency; Ishbel Munro, Coastal Communities Network; Paul Lalande, New Glasgow Junior-Senior High School; Peter McAllister, Sackville High School; and Pat Milligan, Cornwallis Junior High School. Curriculum writer John Stone dedicated months of his time to the research and preparation of this curriculum. We are also grateful for advice and feedback provided by Harold Verge, Doreen Parsons, and Chris Bryant. CED is a process that depends on the participation and enthusiasm of a broad representation of the community. It is therefore fitting that in our small province, more than 100 Nova Scotians attended regional in-services for this curriculum supplement to meet and work with teachers. Finally, we wish to acknowledge the many Nova Scotians involved in CED who inspired this curriculum. Elizabeth Haggart Rick MacDonald Communications Specialist Social Studies Consultant Community Economic Development English Program Services Department of Economic Development Department of Education COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT—ATLANTIC CANADA IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY i PREFACE Preface Community economic development (CED) is a process whereby people in communities work together to overcome challenges, build on community strengths, and create a diversified sustainable local economy. It’s a growing movement across Nova Scotia and one that is crucial to the sustenance and survival of communities, urban and rural. However, successful CED requires the participation and enthusiasm of a broad representation of community members. In 1998, a group of practitioners, educators, and government staff involved in a province-wide CED awareness project identified youth as an important group that must be embraced and engaged in the development of their communities. In the same year, Nova Scotia’s citizen-based Coastal Communities Network (CCN) called for stronger links between the school system and the CED process. They urged government to make school curricula more relevant to rural social and economic conditions and opportunities and expand the involvement of local CED groups, co-operative leaders, and business people in school learning programs. This curriculum is a first attempt to address those recommendations. The grade 9 social studies course, Atlantic Canada in the Global Community, provided an excellent fit for a curriculum that would make youth aware of the important role they can and do play in building a future for their communities. As Father Jimmy Tompkins said in promoting community-based action as a solution to economic disparity in the 1920s: “Education I would put down as the first and most necessary remedy ... ” This curriculum, therefore, has been designed to inform students about CED, its local history, and current status; equip them with the skills and positive attitudes essential to CED initiatives; and engage them actively in CED undertakings in their own local communities. The curriculum also provides teachers with learning, teaching, assessment, and resource suggestions that can enable them to provide classroom experiences that complement the opportunities embodied in CED. Through the energetic and purposeful implementation of this curriculum, it is hoped young people will discover the opportunities that lie within their grasp and will embrace the positive future that can be theirs by living and working in the many diverse communities that make up Atlantic Canada. COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT—ATLANTIC CANADA IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY iii CONTENTS Contents Introduction Background to Community Economic Development .......... 1 Rationale ........................................... 4 Overview ........................................... 5 Outcomes Curriculum Design .................................... 7 Community Economic Development Curriculum Outcomes .... 8 CED Outcome 1 ..................................... 9 CED Outcome 2 .................................... 13 CED Outcome 3 .................................... 17 CED Outcome 4 .................................... 21 CED Outcome 5 .................................... 25 CED Outcome 6 .................................... 29 Connections Relationship to the Essential Graduation Learnings .......... 33 Relationship to Social Studies General Curriculum Outcomes . 37 Relationship to Selected Course Outcomes ................. 40 Relationship to Selected Specific Curriculum Outcomes ...... 42 Appendices Appendix A: The Learning Environment .................. 55 Appendix B: Community Economic Development: A Historical and Contemporary Setting .................. 59 Appendix C: CED: The Essentials ....................... 69 Appendix D: CED Resources ........................... 71 COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT—ATLANTIC CANADA IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY v INTRODUCTION Introduction Background to An exciting movement is growing across Nova Scotia. In communities all over the province, people are banding together with Community Economic one goal in mind—to make their home towns and neighbourhoods Development better places in which to live and work. They’re creating community parks and gardens, holding music festivals, and carving out wilderness trails. They’re building community-owned businesses and setting up worker-owned companies. They’re opening heritage museums, operating 4-H clubs, and starting small businesses. And they’re supporting each other by purchasing locally produced products and using local services. People across Nova Scotia are taking back control over their own destinies by rebuilding their communities. They’re doing CED: community economic development. CED is fundamentally rooted in community. For CED to happen, local people have to take the initiative, get involved, and learn to work together. Then, sometimes with the support of CED practitioners and government, and sometimes without, the people take a hard look at themselves, identify their strengths, and decide what they should do and how they’ll do it. The results are as wonderful and diverse as the communities themselves. The people of Avondale, Hants County, can testify that great things happen when you work together and build on the strengths of your community. The Avon River was home to a prosperous shipbuilding industry during the last century. Inspired by the area’s history and recognizing that they had a wonderful tradition to draw on, a group of local residents decided to build a wooden ship and rebuild the local economy at the same time. As part of the process, they created the Avon Spirit Co-operative Ltd., a co-operatively owned company that enabled local people to invest in the project. Working with the Avon River Heritage Society, the co-operative constructed a shipyard next to the society’s museum, tea room, and gift shop complex. Later, they opened a wooden boat building school. Today, people come from far and wide to watch and learn how to build traditional sailing ships and boats. And they bring their spending money with them. By building on their history, the people of the area are creating employment, generating tourist revenue, and ensuring that the tradition of wooden shipbuilding continues on the Avon River. Building on tradition is one thing; communities are also learning to take advantage of new technology. They’re setting up community access point sites, places where local people can go to use a computer and go on-line the Internet. In northeastern Nova Scotia, the Strait East Nova Community Enterprise Network (SENCEN) helps COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT—ATLANTIC CANADA IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY 1 INTRODUCTION communities to get organized. SENCEN is a partnership of the Strait Regional School Board and the Strait Highlands, Guysborough, and Antigonish Regional Development Authorities. Many of its staff are young people from the area. Under SENCEN’s guidance, communities are finding out that information technology is useful to people in rural areas. Local businesses are being introduced to electronic commerce, learning how to sell their products on-line. People living in isolated areas now have access to university courses and new educational opportunities. Young people are setting up Web sites to promote their communities. Tourism operators take reservations on-line. By being able to access information technology in their own back yard, Nova Scotians are discovering new opportunities for learning, new forms of employment for themselves, and new ways to reach out to the world. Diversification of the local economy is often an important goal of communities starting to do CED. Diversification means creating a variety of opportunities in different sectors of the economy instead of relying on one big industry. Diversification helps communities
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